[Veritas-bu] Hardware Recommendations for new setup
2007-05-07 09:23:25
Subject:
[Veritas-bu] Hardware Recommendations for new setup
From:
austin.murphy at gmail.com (Austin Murphy)
Date:
Mon, 7 May 2007 09:23:25 -0400
On 5/4/07, Conner, Neil <neil at mbari.org> wrote:
> Both come with 73GB disks, but the v240 are SCSI and the T2000 SATA. What's
> the performance penalty for SATA?
The T2000 drives are SAS, Serial Attached SCSI.
http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000/specs.xml
SAS is similar to SATA. Both use the same physical link, but SAS adds
the SCSI command set and there are some other differences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Attached_SCSI
Austin